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150 questions · 150 marks · 2 hours 30 minutes
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Correct answer: (A) Electrolysis
Green hydrogen is made by the electrolysis of water using renewable electricity—the water splits into H₂ and O₂. Since the power comes from the sun or the wind, there is no carbon emission.
Correct answer: (A) Deepfake
Deepfake technology copies a person's face, voice and manner closely enough to make a video in which even someone dead can be shown speaking. AI is the wider field, and a chatbot is only a program that converses.
Correct answer: (B) Pakistan
On the cost-of-living index of 2024, Pakistan among the countries given was placed better than India.
Correct answer: (B) Rajendra Prasad
Rajendra Prasad was foremost among those who stood with Gandhiji in the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917; he later became India's first President. The movement was for peasants forced to grow indigo.
Correct answer: (A) Mercury
Mercury's surface is pitted with craters like the Moon's and it has almost no atmosphere of its own, which is why it is called the moon-like planet. Mars has a thin atmosphere and the Earth a dense one.
Correct answer: (A) Rift Valley of Africa
On the evidence of fossils the place of man's origin is taken to be the Rift Valley of Africa, where the oldest remains of early humans have been found.
Correct answer: (A) Flood-prone areas
Dry-point settlements grow where there is a danger of flood—people choose the higher, drier spots to build on.
Correct answer: (B) Rohtas
Rohtas district produces the most paddy in Bihar and is called the state's rice bowl; the irrigation from the Son canal is the main reason.
Correct answer: (A) Alburz
Tehran, the capital of Iran, lies at the foot of the Alburz range. The Zagros are in western Iran and the Makran in the south-east.
Correct answer: (C) Mahendragiri
The highest peak of the Eastern Ghats is taken to be Mahendragiri, in Odisha. Anai Mudi belongs to the Western Ghats and Kanchenjunga to the Himalaya.
इस प्रति में उत्तर 'इनमें से कोई नहीं' दर्ज था, जबकि वही प्रश्न दूसरे प्रश्नपत्रों में महेंद्रगिरि उत्तर देता है। TRE3 की कोई उत्तर-कुंजी नहीं है, इसलिए सभी प्रतियों में एक ही उत्तर रखा गया है। ध्यान रखिए कि आंध्र प्रदेश की अरमा कोंडा चोटी महेंद्रगिरि से ऊँची है, पर पाठ्यपुस्तकों में इस प्रश्न का उत्तर महेंद्रगिरि ही दिया जाता है।
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (B) Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur produces the most silk cloth in Bihar and is called the Silk City. Its tussar silk is specially well known.
Correct answer: (B) Lord Chelmsford
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place at Amritsar on 13 April 1919, when Lord Chelmsford was Viceroy. Lord Curzon (1899–1905) is remembered for the partition of Bengal and Lord Irwin (1926–31) for the Gandhi-Irwin Pact.
Correct answer: (B) W. C. Bonnerjee
The first session of the Indian National Congress was held at Bombay in 1885 and its first President was W. C. Bonnerjee.
Correct answer: (B) Dadabhai Naoroji
Dadabhai Naoroji is called the Grand Old Man of India. His ‘drain of wealth’ theory showed that British rule was carrying India's wealth away.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The Quit India Movement (1942) and the Non-Cooperation Movement (1920) were both begun by Mahatma Gandhi. The Swadeshi Movement started in 1905 against the partition of Bengal, before Gandhiji had even returned to India. So more than one option is correct.
Correct answer: (A) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928 was led by Vallabhbhai Patel. After that successful stand against the raised land revenue, the women there gave him the title ‘Sardar’.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Annie Besant, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Sarojini Naidu were all associated with the Home Rule Movement, so ‘None of the above’ is the answer.
Correct answer: (A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
The Bihar Provincial Congress Committee was founded in 1920 by Dr Rajendra Prasad, later the first President of India. Anugrah Narayan Sinha was his colleague, and Jayaprakash Narayan of a later generation.
Correct answer: (C) Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
The All India Kisan Sabha was founded at Lucknow in 1936 with Swami Sahajanand Saraswati as its first president; he had built the peasant movement up from Bihar.
Correct answer: (B) Vedas
Correct answer: (C) Himalayas
Correct answer: (C) Baked and burnt bricks
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (A) South Asia
Correct answer: (B) Kautilya
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (B) V. A. Smith
Correct answer: (B) Ashoka
Correct answer: (B) Executive officers
Correct answer: (C) Ashoka
Correct answer: (C) Harshavardhan
Correct answer: (C) Harshavardhan
Correct answer: (C) Vijayalaya
Correct answer: (A) Chola dynasty
Correct answer: (C) England
Correct answer: (A) Capitalist class
Correct answer: (C) Individualism
Correct answer: (C) Rousseau
Correct answer: (B) Medieval France
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (B) Kulaks
Correct answer: (A) General Hideki Tojo
Correct answer: (C) America
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (C) Democratic leadership under America and communist bloc under Russia
Correct answer: (A) Ruknuddin Firozshah
Correct answer: (B) Zia-ud-din Barani
Correct answer: (C) God